ATLANIC Community Schools - Unit Planning

Teacher’s Name: DEREK BAIR Subject: 21st Century Tech Grade: 9th

Overview of the Unit: Think Green will increase student awareness of the environmental issues
caused by waste. Student will analyze four Rs reduce, reuse, recycle and recover.

Iowa Core/Content Standards.

● Communicate and work productively with others, incorporating different perspectives and
cross cultural understanding, to increase innovation and the quality of work.
● Demonstrate leadership skills, integrity, ethical behavior, and social responsibility while
collaborating to achieve common goals.
● Understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal
and ethical behavior.

Enduring Concepts: Content: Academic

Understanding: Sustainability Identifying current Vocabulary:
Sustainability is an problems and some of Sustainability, Organic
important problem for the solutions currently Waste,
any individual living in in place for Decomposition,
the 21st century. environmental Waste Stream,
sustainability. Recycle, Methane,
Composting,
Demonstrate Biodegradable,
understanding of Landfill, Climate
vocabulary. Change, reduce,
reuse, recycle,
recover, energy,
carbon footprint

Essential/Higher Disciplinary Skills: See Attachments

Order Questions: Processes: Team work, analyzing
What can be done to Identify common observations,
make your trends by observation. researching,
home/school/communi Brainstorm ideas for presentation.
ty more green? solutions. Implement
solutions at a
controllable level.
Day 1

Lesson:
Ask students what they know about Sustainability using Google Docs. They will be defining
terms based off of the Pre-assessment worksheet. They have 9 terms; we would like them to
have 12. They will work with a partner to define each term and use them in a complete
sentence.

AIW Standards: IDK/SU SWCK SWEC

Day 2

Lesson:
Recycling Solid waste worksheet. Students will go to thinkgreen.com website and get more
information and then answer the 5 questions on worksheet. We will discuss as a class after. #5-
students MUST add a question to discuss after filling out the previous 4 questions.

AIW Standards: IDK/SU SWEC

Day 3

Lesson:
Janitors will come in to one class and answer questions about the 4 R’s-solid waste (building
WS). Take home the Landfill Solid Waste worksheet (city or county) at the end of class, need to
have questions answered that they know.

AIW Standards: IHOT SWEC

Day 4

Lesson:
Landfill activity- Finish answering questions about Landfill sold waste. Wendy Whitrock will
discuss with the kids some of the attributes of the Cass County Landfill. (Fall Semester
Fieldtrip).

AIW Standards: SWEC IVBS

Day 5

Lesson:
Students Create a poster answering the Question - What is our impact on the environment from
our production of solid wastes? Students present next day.
AIW Standards: SWCU IHOT

Day 6

Lesson:
Watch student presentation posters.
Start Discussing recovery. Take a small piece of paper and safe container and burn it and
students are supposed to document the reaction.

AIW Standards: SWEC TEC SWCK

Day 7

Lesson:
Write the word “methane” on the board. Review what students know about methane, and talk
about methane in a controlled environment, predict some of the characteristics of methane
burning.

AIW Standards: IDK/SU ISC IHOT

Day 8

Lesson:
Methane bubbles and reflection. Take students to Chemistry lab. See Attached:

AIW Standards: SWCU

Day 9

Lesson:
Get online and go to thinkgreen.com and go over how landfills burn waste and open up
discussion on the 4 R’s. Ask class to discuss their responsibilities now that they have this
information. Students take home WS- waste reduction at home

AIW Standards: SWEC TVBS IHOT ISC

Day 10

Lesson:
Where Does it Go From Here? Do pre-assessment WS first-how we use them? Get into groups
of 2-4, and discuss opportunities for implementing 1 of the 4 R’s in home/school/community.

AIW Standards: IDK/SU SWCK SWEC

Assessment

Students will have a paper over the unit. See Where does it go from here? document.

AIW Standards: IDK/SU SWEC

Differentiation

Students are pared for large writing or reading projects.

Unit Planning Process Unit Planning Key:

1. Identify Subject/Course – Unit Selection TCK (Task – Construction of Knowledge)
2. Iowa Core – Common Core – National TEC (Task – Elaborated Communication)
Standards TVBS (Task – Value Beyond School)
(Unwrap the Standard) SWCK (Student Work – Construction of
3. Enduring Understandings and Essential Knowledge)
Questions SWCU (Student Work – Conceptual
4. Disciplined Inquiry Understanding)
5. Unit Plan – SWEC (Student Work – Elaborated
a. Outlining Unit Communication)
b. Developing Daily Lessons IHOT – (Instruction – Higher Order Thinking)
6. Crosswalk AIW Standards with Unit IDK/SU – (Instruction – Depth of Knowledge
7. Revise and further develop the Unit and Student Understanding)
8. Rubrics – Checklist – Assessments ISC – (Instruction – Substantive Conversation)
9. Differentiation IVBS – (Instruction – Value Beyond School)
10. Implement Unit